Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course then we may find that there is no real conflict at all and that the objective aims of the disputants are rather sordid and mercenary . |
| 2 | Firstly , Art & Language 's piece ‘ Ralph the Situationist ’ expresses considerable misgivings about the Situationist project : ‘ The texts are effectively incorrigible and self insulating … ’ ; ‘ … bland incoherence — a self-contradictory absurdity — a moral ground to give up reading and remembering … ’ , and so on . |
| 3 | For example , in Conversation C , the players in the domino game are mostly male and Jamaican-born . |
| 4 | The songs are mostly short and flash . |
| 5 | Microcomputers ( see next page ) , by comparison , are altogether smaller and lighter , and do not require any special environment . |
| 6 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 7 | The chapters on immune disorders of pregnancy and recurrent pregnancy loss , however , are especially informative and Claman is here to be congratulated for summarizing succinctly a large body of data in a balanced and objective way . |
| 8 | Habits , body forms , growth potential , and colours are highly diverse and care should be taken when selecting species for a particular aquarium setting . |
| 9 | Julian says the conventional sewage treatment plants being installed by Severn Trent are less efficient and cost 10 times as much to build.Severn Trent says it ca n't comment on the seven million pound claim until the court hearing . |
| 10 | But they forget they are less agile and machinery has changed since they last worked , and they get caught out . ’ |
| 11 | Where skills are more firm-specific , however , they are less marketable and labour can not necessarily expect to resume their wage profile when they move to another firm . |
| 12 | These stages , apparently complex and certainly time consuming for both buyer and supplier , are less problematic and time consuming than the effects of buying and using incorrect or inadequate products . |
| 13 | Cook , covered , for another 8–10 minutes until green vegetables are brilliantly colourful and barley tender . |
| 14 | ‘ They are extremely well-organised and well-represented legally . |
| 15 | In general the instruments are extremely reliable and failure is very rare . |
| 16 | This is why the simple random walk theories are so successful and whey they apply to rubbers , gels and even to thermosets . |
| 17 | Squids are so intelligent and swift-moving that they must find little difficulty in avoiding man 's clumsy deep-sea dredges . |
| 18 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 19 | I 'd always thought it would be embarrassing to have a man undress you , especially the suspenders which are so ugly and comic , but I helped , and except for the girdle which must be the most resistant , unromantic garment since the chastity belt , it was all easy and delightful . |
| 20 | Mr Bomont said yesterday that the university had been extremely sympathetic and understanding . |
| 21 | The information had been highly confidential and price sensitive . |
| 22 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 23 | Trouble is , competition for passengers has never been so fierce and Virgin is still a tiny airline that 's losing money . |
| 24 | But seldom has a military miscalculation been so gross and retribution so immediate . |
| 25 | They date and marry stars , dress in designer clothes , and are phenomenally rich and cosmopolitan . |
| 26 | They found that football managers — and even footballers themselves — think that the most successful players are those who are physically tough and lack imagination . |
| 27 | In one model , illustrated by Bexley above and discussed in Onyett ( 1991 ) care management and care programming are functionally interchangeable and care programming becomes the mental health version of care management . |
| 28 | The conformation of the central CTAG sequence is reminiscent of the alternating B-form DNA structure proposed for polyd(A-T) , where alternating T-A and A-T dinucleotide steps are successively over- and underwound , respectively , as a result of weak stacking interactions in the T-A steps . |
| 29 | We will increase aid especially to democratic countries carrying out policies which benefit the poorest , are environmentally sustainable and respect human rights . |
| 30 | Until the 1930s the Socialist Party , its Marxist programme notwithstanding , had been generally cautious and reformist , while the UGT , strongest in Madrid , the Basque country and the mining region of Asturias , had traditionally been an organization of moderate skilled workers . |